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    jdancer replied to the thread recommended 100 Gbit/s NICs for Ceph.
    So far, E810 issues have been resolved at work. As with all things, one must do their own due diligence and test their own infrastructure. YMMV.
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    jdancer replied to the thread Kernel 7.0.14-14-pve: immediate reset + CPU machine check when igb loads on I350 (Dell XC730xd) — 6.14 unaffected.
    I don't enable SR-IOV on the 13th-gen Dells at work in production. Running without issues. I do enable X2APIC and I/OAT DMA though. All servers are running latest firmware (BIOS, NIC, iDRAC, etc, etc).
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    jdancer replied to the thread recommended 100 Gbit/s NICs for Ceph.
    At work, the order of precedence for reliability is: 1) Mellanox (CX-6) 2) Intel (E810) 3) Broadcom (NetXtreme/Thor)
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    jdancer replied to the thread losing dirty-bitmaps during Live Migration.
    Probably a long shot but the only clusters I manage at work are Ceph. Not ZFS. For testing, try setting the VM cache to none/default (obviously reboot the VM). YMMV.
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    jdancer replied to the thread Live Migrations get slower over time.
    I found out through trial-and-error live migrations with Ceph, I had to set the VM cache to none/default. Started doing this way back with Proxmox 6. Today's AI bots confirm this is correct setting for Proxmox Ceph live migrations. YMMV. I don't...
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    jdancer replied to the thread H330 sas controller failed after upgrading to Kernel 6.17.2-2-pve.
    LOL, as I mentioned before, to avoid megaraid_sas driver drama, get a Dell HBA330 (which are cheap to get and uses the LSI3008 chip) which is a true IT/HBA-mode controller. Flash with latest Dell firmware. It uses the much simpler mpt3sas...
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    jdancer replied to the thread Do you think we can install Proxmox into a Dell E660 vxrail server?.
    Since the base reference PowerEdge server for the E660 is the R650, it should work. I suggest you "de-brand" it to a standard R650. That requires flashing the PowerEdge Identify Module, factory reset the iDRAC, then flash the R650 BIOS, iDRAC...
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    jdancer replied to the thread rhel initrd getting corrupted during import.
    Missing the the '-N/--no-hostonly' option for dracut which loads all drivers for initrd. This is my procedure way back migrating from ESXi to Proxmox...
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    jdancer replied to the thread HPE DL380 GEN9.
    Need to be more specific on installation issues. I have successfully installed Proxmox 9 on Dell PowerEdge R730s (all R730s are updated with latest firmware) which is equivalent to a HPE DL380 GEN9. I did have to enable X2APIC and I/OAT DMA in...
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    jdancer replied to the thread Upgrade 8 to 9 on HP DL360 G7.
    Just did a clean install of my Supermicro home rack server from PVE8 to PVE9. Yeah, I wait until the last minute. No worries, I've been clean installing PVE9 at work on Dell servers since PVE9 came out. Prefer clean installs. Got punked too many...
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    jdancer replied to the thread Dell PowerEdge R640 compatibility.
    Been running latest version of Proxmox on Dell 10/11/12/13/14/15-gen servers without issues. These servers were previously running VMware. Just make sure to run the latest firmware (NIC, BIOS, disk controller, iDRAC, etc, etc). If going to use...
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    jdancer replied to the thread CEPH Performance.
    As they say, it depends on workloads. Ceph is a scale-out solution, more nodes/OSDs = more IOPS. At least you got the right number of nodes and networking correct at the beginning. Been using Ceph Tentacle erasure-coding for some VMs workloads...
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    jdancer replied to the thread New install on Dell R710 - Upgrade PERC 6 to H310 or H730?.
    I have flashed a PERC 6 in a Dell R200 to IT-mode using Broadcom firmware using someone's web blog post. This was awhile ago. 12th-gen Dell PERC controllers (ie, H310) can be flashed to IT-mode per https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html I have...
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    jdancer replied to the thread PVE8 Intel I350-T4 NIC driver issues.
    Hardware that works in both R630 & R640, you can use the R640 firmware for the hardware on the R630. I flashed the firmware using the Dell .BIN file for RHEL & clones.
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    jdancer replied to the thread PVE8 Intel I350-T4 NIC driver issues.
    I use Dell X550/I350 rNDCs (CD2VM) wihout issues in production with the latest 7.x kernel in R630s. BIOS settings enabled options are X2APIC, I/OAT DMA, UEFI, and Secure Boot. I do NOT have SR-IOV enabled. I did flash the Dell version 23.0.0...
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